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fudgewastaken · Post by **fudgewastaken** » Wed Feb 16, 2022 4:58 pm

DAW aswell for me

bugs · Post by **bugs** » Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:55 pm

Manuscript paper.

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 3:50 pm

Rastkovic wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 6:21 am DAW of course, I've always been a software guy....

I’ve always been a software guy too, but needed to control my hardware synths with a self written program by Midi… For DAWs the hardware wasn’t fast enough back then…

beely · Post by **beely** » Sun Feb 20, 2022 3:59 pm

There weren’t many DAWs in 1985, so…

HiEnergy · Post by **HiEnergy** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 4:57 pm

Hardware Synth first here.
My first hardware synth was a Korg Wavestation.
My first DAW was Cubase Audio/030 CAF on an Atari Falcon 030.
Later I went the Live route and mainly softsynths.

vitocorleone123 · Post by **vitocorleone123** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:00 pm

Started making noises on a computer in the early 90s. No hardware synths until 2018 I think it was.

Double Tap · Post by **Double Tap** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 5:42 pm

Used? Hardware.
Paid for? DAW.

ROTMetro · Post by **ROTMetro** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 7:27 pm

We were really poor but my dad was as amazing pianist. Somehow he got me a Yamaha DX7 in the 80s when I showed interest. Then a Yamaha QX7 sequencer (it supported 4 tracks and memory didn't persist after powering off but you could save your midi to cassette tape using an external tape recorder). Then a Yamaha TX81Z. In the 90s I added a XP80 and Akai SO1. Now I use Ableton and a Novation 49SLMkIII and it's so far beyond anything I could have imagined. For me I truly am living in the future

Only hardware now is an old Roland DP990 to keep my piano skills. Virtual is so much more freeing and lets me dump what's in my head so much quicker. So many hours of life lost programming sounds in the DX7 or fidgeting with samples on the Akai or not being able to reproduce what was in my head due to the limitations of my sequencer.

ShawnG · Post by **ShawnG** » Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:15 pm

I had been writing, recording and performing music for 17 years before I bought my first DAW, and 36 years before I bought my first hardware synth. So given The only 2 options here, I guess the answer is DAW, but really. It’s neither. Certainly there seems to be one massive assumption here that serves to not acknowledge many paths to this place and point in time.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:14 pm

banjo then guitar

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:15 pm

recorder was first though

Watchful · Post by **Watchful** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:16 pm

Hardware: 1986 (Korg DW-8000) owned; borrowed: Moog Satellite probably around 1975

Weren't any DAWs then.

Sequencer Plus 4, around 1989.

fese · Post by **fese** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:32 pm

vurt wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:15 pm recorder was first though

You poor thing, you!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:33 pm

fese wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:32 pm
vurt wrote: Tue Feb 22, 2022 5:15 pm recorder was first though
You poor thing, you!

nope, my poor mother

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What Came First For You ? The DAW or The Hardware Synth ?

What Came First For You ? The DAW or The Hardware Synth ?